The Metropolitan Police has paid £25,000 in compensation to Graham Linehan following his arrest for gender-critical posts.
Following his grotesquely public arrest by a carload of cops for…writing words.
Mr Linehan was detained at Heathrow airport last September by five armed officers after a transgender activist complained about remarks posted on X months earlier.
Five. armed. cops. At. the. airport. For. remarks.
Five armed cops at the airport would make sense for a possibly armed and dangerous murderer or terrorist or similar. For a writer with opinions, it makes no sense at all – it makes anti-sense, it makes a fragment of the universe where sense goes to die.
In a letter seen by The Telegraph, a senior Met officer wrote: “Whilst there can be no doubt that all officers acted in good faith throughout and were seeking to do their best in the circumstances, the investigation identified shortcomings in both the investigation, arrest and imposition of bail conditions.”
No actually let me contradict you there: there can very much be doubt that all officers acted in good faith. Whatever officers decided to send FIVE armed cops to Heathrow to collar him in public did not act in good faith. They wouldn’t send five armed cops to Waitrose to arrest a shoplifter would they? But writing words is somehow five armed cops-worthy? That’s not good faith, bro.
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